TonttuLibrary 📚
the offline library
A self-curated archive of books, articles, and reference material — kept where it is reachable without network or login.
The library is built around 🔗 Kiwix, an open-source offline reader. Kiwix takes huge bodies of online knowledge — Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Project Gutenberg, Stack Exchange archives, medical and reference works — and packages them as .zim files that live on local disk. Once downloaded, no network is needed to read them.
Why offline
🌱 Knowledge does not have to live in the cloud to be alive 🔌 Power outages, dead links, paywalls, and platform shutdowns all stop at the edge of the local disk 🤫 Reading offline leaves no trail 🏡 A personal library, kept on your own shelves, on your own terms
Books and articles outside the Kiwix collection are kept alongside with WebsiteGrabber, PDF and EPUB — the everyday reading that makes the library feel lived-in.
Try it yourself
🔗 Start at kiwix.org — desktop apps for Linux, macOS, Windows, and mobile apps for iOS and Android. The full English Wikipedia is about 100 GB; smaller curated sets are a few GB.
Own private search engine
The library keeps what can be held offline. But some questions still reach for the open web — and asking them usually means being asked something back: who you are, where you are, what you wanted to know. SearXNG is the way around that, running here on the home network.
It is a metasearch engine: it keeps no index of its own, but passes your question to many established engines — Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia and dozens more — gathers what they return, strips the trackers, and hands back plain results. No profile is built, no query is stored, no advert is sold. The engines see the request, not the person behind it.